The linked PDF is a Workbook for a semester-long course using Tannenbaum’s Excursions in Modern Mathematics. I used them as lecture notes at Austin Community College. The general approach is that of “discovery learning”. I’m a recovering fan of the Moore method (see rant below). Topics: Voting theory/Arrow’s Theorem (1 chapter) Fair division (1 chapter) […]
Slideshow put together for the Perimeter College Math Department’s Open Educational Resources Committee, Jan. 2022.
1. Extracting surplus value from workers I use this applet when teaching the x and y axis to adults. Here’s the handout we work through together in class. Source: Capital, Vol. 1, Ch. 11 2. Distributions of market prices and the formation of a general rate of profit The applet pictured above illustrates the mathematical […]
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The worksheets linked below develop financial and economic themes, including labor exploitation, throughout the first half of our Quantitative Reasoning course (up to the Financial Math unit). For example, Worksheet 2 draws a connection between hourly wage rates—which students understand intuitively from everyday life—and proportion equations for similar triangles. The mathematical model of labor exploitation […]
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Slideshow from a presentation at Southern Vermont College, 2014
Statement of teaching philosophy (PDF), 2014